Shoe.



I. HORTON.

SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED Arms, 1913.

1,1 1 5,467, Patented Oct. 27, 1914;

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IRVING HORTON, OF EAST BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN OR OF'SIXTY ONE-I-IUNDREDTHS TO JOHN G. SGHEL'IER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

SHOE.

Application filed April 9, 1913. Serial No. 759,870.

To all whom it may concern r Be it known that I, IRVING HORTON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of East Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

In the manufacture of certain kinds of shoes the welt is sewed to the upper usually to a point extending back to about the front of the heel and the sole is then sewed to the welt. In happens that in certain grades of shoes continual bending of the shoe at the shank causes a breakage of the threads and a separation of the sole from the wel y at the point of bending.

To prevent this separation and conse; quent disfigurement of the shoe is the object'of the present invention. A

In the drawings herewith accompanying and making a part of this application, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe showing my improved fastener secured thereto, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspectlve view of the fastening device. 1

Same reference characters indicate like parts in the several figures.

In said drawing, A represents a shoe, B the sole, C the welt, and'D the line of separation between the sole and welt. Y

My improved fastening device consists of a thin narrow strip of material bent tocorrugated form, preferably angular, although not necessarily so. This strip of metal E, preferably flexible, is inserted edgewise by pressure into the material forming the welt and sole, the corrugations extending transversely across the llne between the welt and sole, the apexes F on one side taking into the material forming the welt and the apexes G on the other side taklng nto the material fornnng the sole substantially asshown in Fig. 1. The fastener is forced into position in the shoe edgewise after the shoe is completed, and being on the inside Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Specificatitm of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27, 1914.

where the separation invariably occurs is practically concealed from view. Some of These barbs ofier little resistance to the,

insertion of the fastener but preventit from accidentally working out. It will be understood that the edge I of the fastener when provided with barbs is inserted first.

Having thus described my invention and its use, I claim: Y

1. The combination with a shoe having the bottom formed of a plurality of flexible parts, of a fastener consisting of a thin narrow strip of corrugated material inserted edgewisein the edge of the shoe along the line of separation between two parts, the corrugations extending transversely across the line ofseparation to lock the parts together.

2. The combination with a shoe having .thebottom formed of ,a plurality of parts at the shank, of a fastener consisting of a thin narrow strip of corrugated material inserted edgewise in the edge of the shoe along the line of separation between two parts, the corrugations extending transversely across the line of separation to lock the parts together. i

3. The combination with a shoe having the bottom formed of. a plurality of parts at the shank, of a fastener consistingof a thin narrow strip .of corrugated material inserted edgewise in the edge of'the shoe along the line of separation between two parts, the corrugations extending transversely across the line of separation to lock the parts together, the fastener being provided with barbs formed thereon to prevent the fastener from accidentally working out of place. a

' IRVING HORTON. Witnesses:

HENRY E. THOMAS, DANIEL C. FRENCH Washington, D. 0. 

